For more than 10 years, from 1948 until 1959, renowned author Vladimir Nabokov taught at Cornell. Cornell will keep the Nabokov presence on its campus very much alive this fall by sponsoring a Nabokov Centenary Festival.
A Cornell official today reacted to the announcement that Beverly Enterprises Inc. has dropped its appeal to reinstate a libel suit against Cornell labor professor Kate Bronfenbrenner by stating that the lawsuit had "no basis in law or fact."
An all-family adventure -- orienteering with map and compass through Cornell Plantations' F.R. Newman Arboretum -- is planned from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, at Cornell.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- An all-family adventure -- orienteering with map and compass through Cornell Plantations' F.R. Newman Arboretum -- is planned from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, August 30, at Cornell University. Admission to the "Explore the Arboretum" event is free to all who register a week in advance. Admission the day of the event is $5 per family. Families may begin the course anytime between 1 and 4 p.m. The orienteering course starts at a tent at the arboretum ponds. The event is sponsored by the Class of 1940 gift to Plantations and the Central New York Orienteering Chapter.
Plants of China and Japan, foods of South America, tree rings of the Mediterranean and gardens of New England are among the topics for this fall's free Wednesday night lecture series sponsored by Cornell Plantations at Cornell.
Carol L. Anderson, associate director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, was installed as the president-elect of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) at the association's annual meeting in Atlanta earlier this month.
Lester Fuess Eastman, the John L. Given Foundation Chair Professor of Engineering at Cornell, has been selected as the recipient of the 1999 Graduate Teaching Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
A Cornell University engineer believes it is possible to limit the destruction from the type of tsunami that slammed into the coast of Papua New Guinea on July 17 with proper coastal management, such as building structures like sea walls, and creating zoning policies banning building in high-risk areas. Philip Liu, professor of civil and environmental engineering, believes that the thousands of deaths and terrible destruction on the island by the 30-foot-high ocean wave was due both to the flatness of the land -- basically lowland jungle -- as well as the flimsy nature of the buildings.
Most students work in a library, laboratory or classroom, but Cornell University undergraduate Greg Aloe floats in space aboard the same NASA aircraft that Tom Hanks used.
Johnson & Johnson, the multinational medical products concern, has yet again shown its support of Cornell research by awarding a $270,000, three-year grant to Bruce Ganem.
